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Re:The New York Times buys Wordle by doopy1 on Monday January 31, 2022 @10:36PM (#30158333)
> There's not much network effect for wordle.

The game is viral because of the way people share their results on social media. This is a huge network effect.

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Re:The New York Times buys Wordle by allturtles on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @01:16AM (#30159203)
I don't think so. You could make a Wordle clone with exactly the same ability to share results, and there would be no reason to use the original Wordle over Wordle 2. This is not true of say, Facebook - the fact that all your friends are already on Facebook makes it more valuable than Facebook 2.
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Re:The New York Times buys Wordle by doopy1 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @05:44PM (#30170640)
It's like a magic trick, you can only do it once, the network effect is cultural.
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